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and the measures to be adopted are specified by the Governor in Council, 

 and up to the present an attempt has only been made to deal with two 

 diseases, the object being to educate the people gradually to believe 

 in the value of such work. Although it is as yet too early to say what 

 success will attend the working of the law, no serious opposition has 

 been experienced, and considerable progress has been made in dealing 

 with two pests affecting the cocoa-nut tree. 



Importation of Potatoes into the Transvaal.— The " Transvaal 

 Government Gazette " of nth June last contains a Government Notice 

 (No. 646 of 1909) notifying, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 16 

 of 1904, that, on and after ist September next, no person shall introduce 

 into the Transvaal from outside South Africa any consignment of 

 potatoes, unless accompanied by a certificate from the consignor stating 

 fully in what country, and district of that country, the potatoes were 

 grown, and also a certificate from the Board of Agriculture of the 

 country in which the potatoes were grown to the effect that the disease 

 known as " warty disease " or " black scab " has not been declared to 

 exist in the district from which the potatoes come. 



Any consignments not accompanied by such certificates will be liable 

 to be seized and destroyed by the Department of Agriculture. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have made an Order, dated 

 23rd July, 1909, under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903, 

 revoking their Orders of the 18th November, 

 Admission of Hay 1908, 20th November, 1908, and 28th November, 

 and Straw from the 1908, which respectively prohibited the land- 

 United States. in g i n Great Britain of hay or straw brought 

 from the State of Pennsylvania ; the States 

 of New Jersey and New York; arid the States of Maryland and Dela- 

 ware, in the United States of America. 



There are now no restrictions on the landing in this country of hay 

 or straw brought from any part of the United States. 



In connection with the International Agricultural Exhibition to be 

 held at Buenos Ayres in 1910, of which notice has been given in this 

 Journal (July, 1909, p. 330), special regula- 

 Importation of Live tions have been made for the importation of 

 Stock for the Buenos live stock intended for the exhibition. From 

 Ayres Exhibition. the United Kingdom, cattle, horses, etc., sheep, 

 goats, and swine may be imported under the 



following conditions : — 



Live stock must be landed at the port of Buenos Ayres. They must 

 be accompanied by (1) an official health certificate from the country 

 of origin, legalised by the corresponding Argentine Consulate, certi- 

 fying the good state of health of the animals, and the good state 

 with respect to animal diseases of the breeding establishment and 

 department from which they come; (2) a second official certificate, 

 similarly legalised, to the effect that they are free from infectious or 

 contagious disease at the moment of shipment. The period of quaran- 

 tine for cattle is ten days; for horses, the time necessary to make a 



